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Expect Miracles: Charter Schools and the Politics of Hope and Despair

reviewed by Douglas Harris - 2003

Title: Expect Miracles: Charter Schools and the Politics of Hope and Despair
Author(s): Peter W. Cookson, Jr. and Kristina Berger
Publisher: Westview Press, Boulder, CO
ISBN: 0813366313, Pages: 240, Year: 2002
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Recent attention to vouchers has over-shadowed the much larger existing school choice program in the United States � charter schools.� The charter movement, now a decade old, includes 2,357 schools, encompassing 4 percent of all K-12 schools in the U.S.� How we understand and evaluate such a large school choice program is likely to have a significant impact on the future of the broader choice movement. � Expect Miracles: Charter Schools and the Politics of Hope and Despair makes a significant contribution to understanding charter schools.� In �Part One: The Landscape of Charter Schools,� Cookson and Berger start with a clear and accurate description of charter school history, beginning in Minnesota and extending to the 36 other states that now have similar types of legislation.� They successfully define the charter school concept.� They provide�up-to-date descriptions of how it has been applied across states, although it is highly questionable whether charter schools in most states are �held strictly accountable for helping their students achieve academic and other performance goals� (p.3), an... (preview truncated at 150 words.)

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Cite This Article as: Teachers College Record Volume 105 Number 4, 2003, p. 649-652
https://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 11005, Date Accessed: 6/1/2020 3:36:13 AM

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